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porary mold, whence it was built up spirally (see Fig. 529) until the 

 desired form had been attained, after which it was smoothed by scrap- 

 ing (see Fig. 530). 



The necks and apertures of these earliest forms of the water jar were 

 made very small in proportion to their other dimensions, presumably 

 on account of the necessity of often carrying them full of water over 

 steep and rough mesa paths, coupled perhaps with the imitation of 



Fig. 529. — Clay nucleus in base-mold, with beginning of spiral building- 

 Other forms. To render them as light as possible they were also made 

 very thin. One of the consequences ofall this was that when large they 

 could not be stroked inside, as the shoulders or uttermost upper pe- 

 ripheries of the vessel could not be reached with the hand or scre.per 

 through the small openings. The effect of the pressure exerted in smooth- 

 ing them on the outside, therefore, naturally caused the upper parts to 



Fig. 530.— First form of vessel. 



sink down, generating the spheroidal shape of the jar (see Fig. 531), 

 one of the most beautiful types of the olla ever known to the Pueblos. 

 At Zuiii, wishing to have an ancient jar of this form which I had seen, 

 reproduced, I showed a drawing of it to a woman expert in the manu- 

 facture of pottery. Without any instructions from me beyond a mere 

 statement of my wishes, she proceeded at once to sprinkle the inside of 



